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Unit 5: Test Quiz 1

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Tensions between anti-slavery and pro-slavery movements grew during the 1950s. Which event is NOT one of those events?

a)

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

b)

The Dred Scott Decision

c)

Seneca Falls Conference New York City

d)

Bleeding Kansas

2.

What Idea during James K. Polk's Presidency represented America's desire to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean?

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Patriotism

c)

Prohibition

d)

Manifest Destiny

3.

What two territories did James K. Polk first add to the United States?

a)

Georgia and Florida

b)

Colorado and Nevada

c)

Texas and Oregon

d)

New Yorkistan and New Englandistan

4.

What line did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 designate as the separation slave (south of line) and free (north of the line) state?

a)

36 30

b)

54 40

c)

20 24

d)

52 30

5.

Why did people move to California in 1849?

a)

Hoping to escape religious persecution

b)

Hoping to escape slavery as it was a free state

c)

Hoping to get rich due to the discovery of gold

d)

Hoping to create trade routes from the Pacific Ocean to Asia

6.

The Scott v. Sanford decision also known as the Dred Scott Case ruled the slaves were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What two groups were involved in the controversy known as "Bleeding Kansas"?

a)

Patriots and Red Coats

b)

Anti-Slavery and Proslavery members

c)

Federal Troops and Native American Warriors

d)

Temperance Movement members and Prohibitionists

8.

Who led the Raid at the federal armory in Harper's Ferry Virginia?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

John B. Gordon

c)

George McClellan

d)

John Brown

9.

What was the key issue that American Politicians were trying to solve leading up to the Civil War?

a)

The use of funds from tariffs collected

through the American System plan

b)

The expansion of Slavery into newly acquired territories

c)

How to handle the Natives living the newly acquired territories

d)

Need for internal improvements in transportation

10.

Under the Missouri Compromise, Maine entered as a slave state and Missouri entered as a free state.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

After the Mexican-American War, America gained territory from California to Texas. Anti-Slavery advocates in the US Congress attempted to pass a provision which stated,

"There shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude in any territory on the continent of America which shall hereafter be acquired by or annexed to the United States…..except for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

What was the Provision Called?

a)

Wilmot Proviso

b)

Tariff of Abomination

c)

Dred Scott Provision

d)

John Scott Proviso

12.

What term means that the people have the right to choose what will happen in their territory?

It was a key feature of the Kansas-Nebraska act that lead to proslavery and anti slavery groups moving into the area setting up for a major clash.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Nullification Crisis

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Popular Sovereignty

13.

What war led to an INCREASE in growing sectionalism between the North and South, over the issue of slavery?

a)

The Civil War

b)

The Mexican-American War

c)

World War 2

d)

War of 1812

14.

The fugitive slave act, California becomes a free state, and the end of slave trade in Washington D.C were all provision in what compromise?

a)

Wilmot Proviso

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Missouri Compromise of 1820

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Compromise

15.

Who did the United States of American sign a TREATY with to acquire the Oregon territory?

a)

France

b)

Spain

c)

England

d)

Mexico

16.

What decision was reached by the Supreme Court following arguments in the case of Sandford v Scott that angered many antislavery and northern citizens?

a)

the possession of slaves were legal everywhere including northern states

b)

Slavery was illegal in all states including all US territories